The second law of thermodynamics in the quantum Brownian oscillator at an arbitrary temperature
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Publication:978720
DOI10.1140/EPJB/E2007-00354-5zbMATH Open1189.82069arXiv0712.0478OpenAlexW3105134405MaRDI QIDQ978720FDOQ978720
Authors: Ilki Kim, Günter Mahler 
Publication date: 25 June 2010
Published in: The European Physical Journal B. Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In the classical limit no work is needed to couple a system to a bath with sufficiently weak coupling strength (or with arbitrarily finite coupling strength for a linear system) at the same temperature. In the quantum domain this may be expected to change due to system-bath entanglement. Here we show analytically that the work needed to couple a single linear oscillator with finite strength to a bath cannot be less than the work obtainable from the oscillator when it decouples from the bath. Therefore, the quantum second law holds for an arbitrary temperature. This is a generalization of the previous results for zero temperature [1,2]; in the high temperature limit we recover the classical behavior.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0478
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